Skirt-gage.



K. KNORR.

SKIRT GAGE. APPLlCATlON FILED AUG.30.1'9H,

1%66562. Patented May 21,1918. P7 7 IIVVE/VTOR A TTORNE YKATHERINEKNORR, 0F NORWALK, CONNECTICUT.

SKIRT-GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Application filed August 30, 1917. Serial No. 188,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KATHERINE KNORR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norwalk, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, haveinvented an Improvement in Skirt-Gages, of which the following is aspecification.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an inexpensive and easilyoperated skirt gage which shall be equally adapted for use bydressmakers or by persons making their own dresses and which will enablethe user, in a simple and expeditious manner and without assistance, tomark a skirt for turning up at the bottom, so that the hem may beaccurately located at any desired distance from the floor and at justthe same distance from the floor entirely around.

With this and other objects in View, I have devised the novel skirt gagewhich I will now describe, and which comprises a chalk holder and aclamp adapted for attachment either to the edge of an open door or tothe edge of a table.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my novel skirt gage shown as in placeupon a door, which is indicated by dotted lines;

Fig. 2 a front elevation corresponding therewith;

Fig. 3 a view showing the gage attached to the edge of a table;

Fig. 4 a perspective view of the chalk holder detached, and

Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the operation of my novel device inmarking a skirt.

The body of the clamp comprises a base 10, and arms 11 extending fromthe base and lying parallel to each other. One of the arms is providedwith a thumb screw.

12 having a head 13 which is preferably swiveled on the end of the screwto prevent marring a door or table. The chalk holder is formed fromsheet metal and comprises a base 14 and spring arms 15 which are adaptedto grip and yieldingly retain an ordinar flat piece of tailors chalkindicated by 16, and appearing in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3.

In order to adapt my novel gage for attachment either to the edge of anopen door or to the edge of a table, it is necessary that the chalkholder be attached to the clamp in such a manner as to adapt it to beplaced horizontally to the base of the clamp or at right angles thereto,that it be adapted to be conveniently shifted from one position to theother, and that it be rigid in either position. I therefore provide thebase of the chalk holder with holes 19 and 20 and pivot the chalk holderto the base of the clamp by means of a headed stud 17 passing throughhole 19 in the base of the chalk holder and through the base of theclamp. 21 denotes a pin projecting from the face of the clamp inhorizontal alinement with pivot stud l7 and in position to engage hole20 in the base of the chalk holder, and 22 denotes a similar pinprojecting from the face of the clamp in vertical alinement with pivotstud 17 and in position to be engaged by hole 20 when the chalk holderis swung to a position at right angles to the clamp, as in Fig. 3. Inother words the pins are equidistant from the stud and on radial linesat right angles to each other. In order to shift the chalk holder fromone position to the other, the end opposite to the pivot stud is sprungupward sufiiciently to disengage hole 20 from the pin with which it hasbeen in engagement and then the chalk holder is given a quarter turn toplace hole 20 in alinement with the other pin and the base of the chalkholder is released and will spring into engagement with the pin, so thatthe chalk holder will be rigid in either position in which it may beplaced.

The operation of my novel skirt marker is as follows: The operator putson the skirt, then measures five inches, downward from the waistline infront to a point indicated by 18 which gives a starting point from whichto mark a hip line. The operator then adjusts the clamp on the edge of adoor or table as indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, or in Fig. 3, at therequired height to place the chalk in vertical alinement with thestarting point. The operator then turns herself entirelv about, pressingthe skirt against the chalk as she does so, which marks a hip lineentirely around the skirt. It will be noted that this hip line is thesame distance from the floor entirely around without regard to whetherthe hips are broad or narrow. The distance from the chalk to the flooris measured and the required distance of the hem from the floor isdeducted from that measurement which determines the dis tance of the hemfrom the hip line.

For example, if the distance from the chalk to the floor (which ofcourse is the same as the distance from the hip line to the floor) isforty inches, and the hem is required to be eight inches from the floor,the lower end of the skirt requires to be turned over and pinned orbasted with the edge thirty-two inches from the hip line entirelyaround. The usual manner of'doing this is to use a skirt board, notshown as it forms no portion of the present invention, turning the skirtabout the board and turning over the lower end of the skirt and securingit with the edge thirty-two inches from the hip line entirely around,that is, at a distance from the hip line equal to the distance of thechalk from the floor less the required distance of the hem from thefloor.

Having thus described my invention, I

c1aim:

' 1. A skirt gage comprising a clamp, a chalk holder pivoted thereto,and means right angles to each other, and a chalk v holder pivoted onthe stud and having a hole adapted to engage either pin whereby thechalk holder may be secured in place on the clamp in positions at rightangles to each other.

3. A skirt gage comprising a clamp having abase, and arms adapted toengage the edge of a door or table, a thumb screw in one of the arms foradjustably securing the clamp in place and spaced apart pins projectingfrom the face thereof, anda chalk holder pivotally secured to;v theclamp and having a hole spaced away from the pivotal point and adaptedto be engaged by either of the pins. 1

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

KATHERINE KNOBR.

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